Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7

galad87

Cool, but Apple didn't announce any M6 Pro yet, so where is this coming from?

aurareturn

Wait. What? This is actually the M6 Pro and not the M6. It has 18 CPU cores to the M6's 12. The scores line up as well. Reports have said all along that Apple is skipping M6 Pro/Max to focus on M7 generation. I can't remember the last time an Apple chip got leaked like this.

mdp2021

And how much would it cost? In the current times performance/price seems to be increasingly important. (Not to mention several other factors that once did not even exist, or were irrelevant.)

OsrsNeedsf2P

I'm currently in the middle of porting a game from 2004 to run on MacOS via wine. On a 5000$ Macbook Pro, I'm getting about 4 FPS. This has multiple causes, including the game being single threaded and running through Rosetta, but damn is it hard to get good single core performance out of Macbooks. Out of curiosity, I also ported the game to arm Linux with fex + upstreamed the wine patches in about a third the time and there's no FPS issues

a3w

>4k? Thought not would barely twice that of an 15 year old CPU, but it of course is geekbench 7, not 6 or 5! So this is different and faster than such a result in the old scoring would have implied.

leptons

Under exactly what cooling conditions? And for how long did it sustain this speed?

GeekyBear

There are also leaks for the M5 Ultra & Base M6. M5 Ultra CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=parkdale_cpu&q=mac17%... M5 Ultra GPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=grand_gpu&q=mac17%2C1... Base M6 CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=parkdale_cpu&q=mac18%... Base M6 GPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=grand_gpu&q=mac18%2C5 The Base M6 CPU single core is averaging a bit over 4000 on Geekbench 7. For comparison, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 averages 3161 on the same test. https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d... The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus averages 2940 on the same test. https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-ultra-7-...

asimovDev

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/ https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/singlecore here are the leaderboards for anyone else who was curious

rbanffy

Has anyone tried to run Geekbench on POWER11 or a Telum II?

khoirul

I will never understand how an intelligent, opinionated crowd like HN can be so obsessed over Apple's CPU offerings. Buying into the Mac ecosystem is without a doubt subjecting oneself to vendor lock-in. Linux won't even run on these machines until in 2-3 years, if you're lucky.

gainsurier

Sorry everyone, this submission appears to be forged—the L1 and L2 caches don't match up m4 pro and m5 pro

5555watch

Would be interesting to see Speedometer 3.1 tests as well. I find they translate really well to user experience, and previously the M5 Base was beating the equivalent Ryzen/Intel there as well.